LaVon Eblen visits with volunteer Kim Spillers of the Lullabye Foundation.
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LaVon Eblen visits with volunteer Kim Spillers of the Lullabye Foundation.
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High School Football comes your way tonight on KJAN and KJANTV. We will be in Griswold as the Tigers play host to the Riverside Bulldogs in a Class A, District 7 battle. Tune in for our pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? at 6:00pm, the Dvorak Tire and Service Pre-Game show at 6:30pm and Kickoff is at 7:00pm. Catch all the action on AM1220, FM101.1, online at kjan.com, and on the KJAN app. You can also watch all the action on our TV page at KJAN.com. Just browse to that page on any web enabled device and click play on the video player there just before broadcast time. Join Chris Parks and Mike Smith for some High School Football tonight!
If you can’t make it out for the Homecoming Parade today here in Atlantic then tune in online! We’ll have a live video stream on our TV page at kjan.com. Just go to the TV page and click play on the video player on the screen just before the parade at 2:30pm. Happy Homecoming Trojans from your friends at KJAN!
Deputies with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Thursday afternoon, arrested 31-year old Jackie Lee Marler, of Creston. Marler was taken into custody at the Union County Courthouse on a Union County warrant for violation of a no contact/protective order. Marler was being held in the Union County Jail without bond, pending an appearance before a judge.
A task force meets for the first time today (Friday 2 PM) to study Iowa’s old and complicated alcohol laws which some say need to be revamped. Garrett Burchett (bur-CHET), of LeClaire, will represent a dozen “micro-distilleries” on the panel. Burchett runs a vodka distillery near Davenport that opened six years ago and now, his Mississippi River Distilling attracts nearly 60-thousand people a year.
“Those people come to see the mechanics of it, they come to see how it’s made, and at the end of the day, we believe they want to sit down and have a drink,” Burchett says. “We want to do that responsibly and within the laws, within those rules, no different than any other bar or restaurant but at the same time, we want that opportunity no different than breweries and wineries.”
The LeClaire distillery is growing, selling vodka, gin and whiskey to customers in 26 states and three foreign countries. Unfortunately for Burchett, Iowa code requires small distilleries to stop producing liquor once they reach a certain limit. “At some point, we will exceed that production limit,” he says. “This company will be so successful that we’ll have to close our doors to the folks of Iowa and Illinois. We’ll have to close our front door. There’s not a brewery in the state of Iowa that has a production limit. No one walked into a brewery and said, ‘Hey, no matter how successful you are, eventually, we’re going to have to put a stop to that.'”
In addition to the production limit, Burchett says another problem is the company is only allowed to sell two bottles of liquor per day to a customer and they can’t sell any by the glass. Also, free samples are limited to two ounces per person per day. The Iowa Alcohol Policy Task Force is expected to make recommendations to the next legislature. The group’s co-chairs are the directors of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division and Economic Development Authority. The other members represent Iowa’s beer, wine and liquor industries.
(Radio Iowa)
The president of the Iowa Farm Bureau says it’s “vitally important” that congress pass the pending “T-P-P” trade deal before year’s end. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership. Iowa Farm Bureau president Craig Hill says congress should act after the November election, before the new president takes office. “Every day that we delay is a day that we depreciate the value of the agreement,” Hill says. “It’s a multilateral, comprehensive trade agreement. It includes 12 countries which brings net farm income to the positive by about $4.4 billion a year.”
Hill says, unfortunately, the two major party presidential candidates have “poisoned the well” on the trade pact President Obama’s administration negotiated with 11 other “Pacific Rim” countries. “But we’re hopeful. We’re working on it every day. It’s important to America. It’s important to the world,” Hill says. “And after we get this one done, TTIP — which is the European trade deal — could be executed upon. It’s being negotiated now, but we can’t do that until we get TPP.”
The Trans Pacific Partnership involves a dozen countries with a border that touches the Pacific Ocean. Farm groups say the deal would stop countries from using “non-scientific” reasons for barring the import of U.S. commodities, like corn and soybeans as well as pork, beef and dairy products.
(Radio Iowa)
2016 High School Football Master Schedule
Week 3 – September 9th
Class 3A, District 7
Denison-Schleswig @ Atlantic
Carroll @ Glenwood
Harlan @ Creston O-M
Winterset @ ADM
Class 2A, District 7
East Sac County @ Red Oak
Shenandoah @ Kuemper Catholic
Clarinda @ Underwood
South Central Calhoun @ Southeast Valley
Class 1A, District 7
Treynor @ Logan-Magnolia
IKM-Manning @ OA-BCIG
Missouri Valley @ AC-GC
AHSTW @ Tri-Center
Class A, District 7
Southwest Valley @ Earlham
Martensdale St. Marys @ Southeast Warren
Riverside @ Griswold
St. Albert @ Nodaway Valley
Class 8-man, District 6
Lamoni @ Stanton
Mormon Trail @ Bedford
Murray @ East Union
Wayne @ Lenox
Class 8-man, District 7
East Mills @ Fremont-Mills
Essex @ Clarinda Academy
Sidney @ Exira-EHK
Woodbine @ CAM
Class 8-man, District 8
Charter Oak-Ute @ Ar-We-Va
Coon Rapids-Bayard @ Audubon
River Valley @ Boyer Valley
West Harrison @ Glidden-Ralston
Greene County Cross Country Invitational
Thursday, September 9, 2016
GIRLS
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Class AA
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An investigation into the sexual assault and exploitation of 10 prepubescent girls has resulted in the conviction of a southern Iowa man. The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports a judge on Thursday sentenced 31-year old Timothy Ryan Zollman, of Van Wert, to 120-years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Zollman was earlier convicted on two counts of child pornography production, which included the videotaping of the sexual assaults.
U-S Attorney Kevin VanderSchel said Zollman was a “Dangerous predator,” who “Was brought to justice because one of his victims, a young girl, was brave enough to report his criminal actions.”
The case was investigated by the FBI, U-S Dept. of Homeland Security, U-S Marshals Service, the Iowa DCI’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Decatur, Ringgold and Polk County Sheriff’s Offices, Creston Police Dept., Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and the South Dakota Dept. of Criminal Investigation. The case was prosecuted by the U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa, as part of the U-S Dept. of Justice’s “Project Safe Child” initiative.
Any person having knowledge of a child being sexually assaulted, is encouraged to call the Iowa Sexual Abuse Hotline, at 1-800-284-7821.
More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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